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This useful document from Action for Children and DfE has been recently updated. It might be a useful link for your setting website or Facebook page: https://www.foundationyears.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/what-to-expect-when-1.pdf I have uploaded a copy to the resource area too
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The Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has announced a change to the current 'red book' system. We all use this when completing our '2 year checks' so it will be interesting to see how settings will be able to input into the new online system.
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Why the world is becoming more allergic to food (link to BBC piece online) Around the world, children are far more likely than ever before to develop food allergies. Recent inquiries into the deaths of two British teenagers after eating sesame and peanut highlighted the sometimes tragic consequences. In August, a six-year-old girl in Western Australia died as the result of a dairy allergy. The rise in allergies in recent decades has been particularly noticeable in the West. Food allergy now affects about 7% of children in the UK and 9% of those in Australia, for example. Across Europe, 2% of adults have food allergies. Life-threatening reactions can be…
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Hello, We switched to tapestry in June and would usually be setting new next steps at the end of August ready for the new term.. can all of this be done through tapestry, if so how and what do other settings do? Do you create reports? do you still have paperwork? Any support is really appreciated. Thank you
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Hi everyone, with children that are leaving to go onto school or another setting, we usually do reports covering all the areas etc. We also have paper trackers still, do we also send these with the child and if so do we also need to keep a copy to store Thank you in advance
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Please can anyone give me advice about safe and secure room dividers. I have been using a lindam room divider for a year now to cordon off the entry area. It recently broke and I cannot find this product anymore, seems to be discontinued. trouble is, all other companies I have tried are easy to open. I need a double locking system which is easy enough for adults but too difficult for clever and energetic toddlers. Can anyone help me?
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i want to introduce a next steps tree, i got the idea from twinkl like the one below, has anybody else used this. i just wondered if you use the childs full name in here anywhere, or just initials or first names,. thanks
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I couldn't find a sensible place to put this but I really wanted to share it! I found it very moving and the play specialist who is responsible is so inspriational. It is an article from The Guardian 31st January 2018, by journalist Halima Ali "She has painted masks ranging from superheroes such as Batman and Iron Man to My Little Pony, a pizza mask, a “queen of radiotherapy” mask – and one for a girl who wanted her hair painted on like it was before chemotherapy caused it to fall out. Marsden came up with the idea several years ago when she looked online and saw a hospital in the US doing something similar." We can be heroes: the masks putting children with can…
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This research, published recently in The British Psychological Society's Readers Digest magazine, says that "The results suggest that pretending to be a popular fictional character helps young children to resist distraction, at least compared to the other conditions used in this experiment." It's a fascinating read - and might be usefully applied in EY settings everywhere (although the children probably know this already (always takes us a while to catch up!)). You can read the article in full: Pretending to be Batman helps kids stay on task
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The recent screening of the Channel 4 programme 'The Secret Life of 4, 5 and 6 year olds' has sparked considerable debate in the media over the last few days. The title of the programme suggests a 'fly on the wall' approach where the camera merely shows what the children got up to when out of the adults' gaze. However, it seems that the programme staged some situations which caused anxiety to children and allowed the 'reserarchers' to provide commentary on what they were seeing. That situations were 'staged' means that the 'fly on the wall' approach is not wholly accurate. Michael Rosen has addressed this in his blog: "Thursday, 9 November 2017 Unethical TV…
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